Documenting The Great Replacement Pt. 1

Documenting The Narrative

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The Narrative:

Troubling image of drowned boy captivates, horrifies (Reuters hopes)!

Many may remember this photo from 2015 of a little refugee boy (Aylan Kurdi) who washed up on shore in a Turkish tourist resort [1]:

The tale was pushed relentlessly in the news. It was covered by several different media outlets [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, & 25]. Western media, of course, is highly centralized [26] (and left leaning [42]). Remember that creepy clip compiling all the different outlets reading from the same script about fake news?

Whose democracy?

Coverage of the story even continues on years after the fact [27 & 28]. This manner of sustained attention on such a minor incident does not happen naturally. People have the attention spans of goldfish. The original story wasn’t just some guest opinion piece either; it was credited to the “Reuters Staff” [1]. This is as far up the food chain of news as it gets. Outlets often just copy/paste content directly from Reuters and the Associated Press. In fact, Reuters actively facilitates this through their 'Ready To Publish Content' program as part of their business model: https://www.reutersagency.com/en/media-solutions/ready-to-publish/

In the list of outlets, Fox News [7] actually just outsourced to AP News.

Wasn’t the Reuters article just a reaction to the story going viral on Twitter? Well, what trends on social media is completely artificial too. We now know from the Twitter Files that "Trending Blacklist", "Search Blacklist", and "Do Not Amplify" labels were manually added to accounts on a regular basis, often at the request of the FBI, the DHS, the DOD, the CIA, and the DNC (but not the GOP) [43].
Again however, it’s not like there’s any reason that this incident should be special. Things go viral on social media all the time, yet they’re mostly forgotten about very quickly. Even the worst of outrage porn soon finds itself memoryholed in lack of this kind of organized wall to wall coverage. Which, of course, we have far worse to choose from than what happened to Kurdi [see anecdotes].

‘Think Of The (Women &) Children!’

In 2016, an editorial [63] appeared in The Guardian covering an interview with the spokeswoman of the United Nations UNICEF agency; she claimed that 36% of the boat migrants were children, adding that “Children and women on the move now make up nearly 60%” of those entering from Macedonia”. A number of articles beating a similar drum have appeared in Reuters [64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, & 72] and on AP News [73, 74, & 75] Of these, multiple were editorials [71, 74, & 75]. The one guilt tripping about the story of a pregnant Iraqi woman [64] was by Reuters TV producer Yara Abi Nader, and one of the pieces covering UN figures [66] (also [70]) was by Suleiman Al-Khalidi (chief Reuters correspondent for Jordan and Syria). This isn’t just a message that’s pushed by random guest opinion piece writers.

‘An Easy Solution To Labor Shortages!’

An Associated Press editorial [76] draws attention to William Lacy Swing, The head of the International Organization for Migration, who in 2015, stated that "leaders must prepare the world for more diversity as aging societies in the developed world and endemic youth unemployment in the developing world drive demographic trends." The Guardian also released an editorial [77] in 2015 which frames the issue as follows:

"The European migration flow is nevertheless far more manageable than in the Middle East, where roughly 2.2 million Syrian refugees live in Turkey alone. In Lebanon, 1.1 million Syrians form about one-fifth of the country’s total population, while Jordan’s 633,000 registered Syrian refugees make up around a tenth of the total.

The denial of basic rights to refugees in those countries, where almost all Syrians do not have the right to work, is one of the causes of Europe’s migration crisis. Refugees who have lived for several years in legal limbo are now coming to Europe to claim the rights bestowed on them by the 1951 UN refugee convention."

One can also easily find numerous stories from Reuters [78, 79, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, & 97] pushing the same message, including editorials [78, 79, & 94].

Schrödinger’s Demographics: The Celebration Parallax:

Various articles from Reuters and The Associated Press offhandedly call the great replacement a "false" [44, 45, 46, 47, & 57], "racist" [48, 49, 50, 51, 56, 58, 59, & 60], "baseless" [49, 50, & 52], "white supremacist" [45, 53, & 54] "conspiracy theory" [46, 48, 49, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, & 59]. Often, there is plausible deniability in whether the views of the authors of an article truly reflect the broader publication, but of the articles thus listed [44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, & 60], reference 46 had a senior reporter at the associated press an an author, reference 57 was an editorial; and references 58, 59, & 60 were authored by Reuters deputy editor Jenna Zucker. If you search the term on Youtube, you’re also directed to the Wikipedia article where it, again, is referred to as a “conspiracy theory”. A basic pattern common among these pieces is that they’re written to address negative reactions to the demographic change.

One is left to wonder if—using the label “The Great Enrichment” to describe the simple realities of demographic change [see Migration Volume]—might be met with the same sort of denial and outrage. The question answers itself. As we’ve seen, when it’s brought up in any other context, it is acknowledged. When there’s a labor shortage, it’s good and natural and inevitable that immigrants come and “solve” it. When the middle east behaves like the midiæval maelstrom that it’s been for the past millennium [see European Imperialism Vs Islamic Imperialism], you’re a bad person if you don’t allow yourself to be flooded with anybody who purports to be one of the refugees. When books [e.g. 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, & 91] by political scientists + leftists + demographers + etc discuss how politics will be transformed by this demographic transition, it’s neutral academic analysis.

The statement that ‘it isn’t happening, and it’s a good thing that it is’ comes to mind.

It’s almost like a parallax, where it’s good or bad depending on who is the one that’s seeing it.

In case any of the viewership manages to rub as many braincells together as are necessary to look up demographic data or census records [see Migration Volume], many of the pieces [46, 48, 49, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, & 59] made sure to label the issue as a “conspiracy theory” or as otherwise being an accusation of intentionality. Of course, even by the standards of the motte constructed in this motte & bailey, there is plenty of reason to see the demographic shifts we observe as being unnatural in origin [see Ethnic Cleansing By Default?], but this should be totally beside the point. We don’t need a theory of gravity in order to observe an apple falling from a tree. The consequences [see Integration, and the Rape & Crime Statistics] are what they are regardless of liability, and this is the only appropriate point of consideration in the formulation of policy.

Systemically documenting all instances of the party line being pushed in the press would be a fool’s errand. More empirically however, we know from various time series, cross-sectional, panel, and experimental analyses that A) changes in the prevalence of ethnomarxist racial views temporally follow increases in the supply of europhobic media messaging; that B) this europhobic media messaging evokes sentiments of white guilt, which in turn, amplifies the expression of ethnomarxist attitudes and policy preferences; and that C) the supply of this messaging has been rapidly increasing over time [61]. The result? In trolley problems, average liberals are more willing to murder somebody for the greater good if they are White [62].

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